The project was significant because it had evolved from several business-plan activities of the Bank, other implementing agencies and bilateral donors to become a comprehensive, multi-stakeholder project that would completely eliminate carbon tetrachloride production and consumption in India.
Al entregar los premios, el Presidente destacó que China, el mayor productor y consumidor de sustancias agotadoras del ozono del mundo, había realizado adelantos significativos, a través de su dependencia nacional del ozono, para eliminar gradualmente la producción y consumo de esas sustancias.